Wonders

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World is a list of monuments from antiquity that was featured in various texts and poems dating from the 2nd to 1st century BC.

Hellenistic travellers, visiting the civilisations and landmarks across Egypt, Persia and Babylonia gave rise to what was essentially a travel book of “theamata”, meaning “sights” or “things to be seen”, featuring the sculptural and architectural monuments of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions.

The first list was suggested by Diodorus Siculus of Sicily, an ancient Greek historian who wrote the Bibliotheca historica.